You could say this is "nice move" by them, but I'd say that this was their response on our "mutiny", and we shouldn't be fooled by it and continue what we were doing so far (I'd say this announcement is a good indicator that we're on the right track).

So, let's see what they threw us this week and let's think about it:

As you're probably familiar, we're invited for a "walker week", and their data analysis came up with 227 million walkers killed - now they want us to do almost double to get.. what exactly?

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I disagree. Nobody's forcing you to spend anything you don't want to.
The fact that we have a long list of things that are going to be looked at and improved (xp and challenges to name but two) is very encouraging, as is the announcement at such an early stage.
Bravo Guild Council and NG!

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option.” (Bob Marley)

In fact they force us...but in a psychological way, because everybody wants to help to reach the goal of 400 million dead walkers.

Of course because it's a "carefully-engineered coercion plan" according to the job posting.

Truth is, no one is forcing anyone to do anything. Play or don't play. Pay or don't pay. It's an individual choice. This is the sandbox. If we don't like the rules to their sandbox, we don't have to play in it.

Kudos to the Guild Council for stepping up and having the conversation. It will be interesting to see what the results are. I do believe that NG wants to listen to them. I do not believe that they are going to change their basic business model.

From what I see, a key factor in the coercion plan is waste, or to be more precise, the wish to avoid waste.. They provide lots of reasons to pick up the game so we don't "waste" resources. It would be a waste not to tap all of those additional walkers at the wall, or do not use that tank of gas, or to not maximize a double supplies weekend.

My suggestion: Forget about wasting resources here. They aren't real. Go recycle a real world bottle or talk to your supermarket supplier about donating imperfect product to a food bank or find a way to reduce the amount of gas you use or go plant a tree. There are many possibilities.

My suggestion: Forget about wasting resources here. They aren't real. Go recycle a real world bottle or talk to your supermarket supplier about donating imperfect product to a food bank or find a way to reduce the amount of gas you use or go plant a tree. There are many possibilities.